Name: Ureaplasma Shepard et al. 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Chem. fem. n. urea, urea; Gr. neut. n. plasma, anything formed or moulded, image, figure, form; N.L. neut. n. Ureaplasma, urea form [probably better: Ureiplasma]

Gender: neuter (stem: Ureaplasmat-)

Type species: Ureaplasma urealyticum Shepard et al. 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Shepard MC, Lunceford CD, Ford DK, Purcell RH, Taylor-Robinson D, Razin S, Black FT. Ureaplasma urealyticum gen. nov., sp. nov.: proposed nomenclature for the human T (T-strain) mycoplasmas. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1974; 24:160-171.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 2

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 9
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 9
Total number of child taxa: 11

Parent taxon: Mycoplasmoidaceae Gupta et al. 2018

Assigned by: Gupta RS, Sawnani S, Adeolu M, Alnajar S, Oren A. Phylogenetic framework for the phylum Tenericutes based on genome sequence data: proposal for the creation of a new order Mycoplasmoidales ord. nov., containing two new families Mycoplasmoidaceae fam. nov. and Metamycoplasmataceae fam. nov. harbouring Eperythrozoon, Ureaplasma and five novel genera. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2018; 111:1583-1630.

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